Index:Fauna of Arda
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A dragonfly from The Rings of Power TV series.
Fauna of Arda is a list of animals in Arda.
- Note: Individual animals are not included.
Alphabetical list[edit source]
- Ants
- Apes
- Badgers
- Bats
- Bears
- Bees
- Birds: Quenya aiwe; Sindarin: aew; Gnomish aigli ("bird" (especially larger)");[1] bilin or bilinc ("a small bird, especially sparrow")[1]
- Boars
- Butterflies
- Camels
- Cats
- Conches: Quenya hyalma ("conch")
- Cows
- Crebain
- Crows
- Deer
- Dogs
- Donkeys/Asses[2][3]
- Doves: Quenya, Old Noldorin kukua ("dove")[4][5]
- Dragonflies: Gnomish sithagong ("dragonfly") or sithaling ("(fly snake) dragonfly")[1]
- Ducks[6]
- Dumbledors
- Eagles
- Elephants
- Finches
- Fish
- Flies
- Fowl: ?Common Eldarin porok-, korok ("hen");[7] Gnomish porog ("fowl (domestic)"); porogwil or uil ("hen")[1]
- Foxes
- Frogs: Common Eldarin kăwāk; Quenya quāke[7]
- Glowworms
- Goats: Qenya yat, yak- ("goat")[8]
- Gorcrows
- Gulls
- Hares: Qenya lapatte ("a hare"); Gnomish laboth ("a hare")[1]
- Hawks
- Horses
- Hounds
- Hummerhorns
- Insects: Quenya pī ("small insect, fly")[7]
- Kine of Araw
- Kingfishers
- Kirinki
- Larks
- Lions
- Lice: Gnomish gwef or gwevin ("louse")[1]
- Minnows: Qenya nis, niks- ("minnow, 'little fish'")[9]
- Moles
- Mice: Gnomish nig or nigla ("a mouse")[1]
- Moths
- Narwhals
- Neekerbreekers
- Nightingales
- Oliphaunts
- Owls
- Pards
- Pigs: Gnomish hunc ("pig"); hugin ("young pig")[1]; larma ("[?pig-]fat")[10]; polka ("pig")[11]
- Rabbits
- Rats
- Ravens
- Robins: Gnomish crinthammos ("red breast, robin")[1]
- Sealions
- Serpents
- Sheep
- Snails
- Snakes
- Sparrows: Gnomish bilin or bilinc ("a small bird, especially sparrow")[1]; Qenya filit ("sparrow, small bird"; pl. filiki)[12]
- Spiders
- Squirrels
- Starlings
- Swifts: Gnomish
dwindi, lindwil, glindwil ("a swift (bird)")[1] - Swallows: Gnomish duil, duiling, duilinc ("swallow")[1]
- Swans
- Thrushes
- Weevils: Gnomish gwembel (or gweml, gwemli)[1]
- Whales
- Wolves
- Woodpeckers: Quenya tambaro ("woodpecker");[4] Noldorin tafr or tavor ("woodpecker")[4]
- Worms
- Yellow hammer: Quenya ammale, ambale; Old Noldorin ammale, ammalinde; Noldorin em(m)elin, emlin ("yellow bird, 'yellow hammer'")[4]
- Zebras: Gnomish raibrog ("zebra"; fem. raibros)[1]
See also[edit source]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 J.R.R. Tolkien, "I-Lam na-Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue", in Parma Eldalamberon XI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Over Hill and Under Hill": "For goblins eat horses and ponies and donkeys (and other much more dreadful things), and they are always hungry."
- ↑ :J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "The Taming of Sméagol": "'No, no! Sam, you old ass!'"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part One" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 45, November 2003
- ↑ Cf. the words of Meriadoc Brandybuck to Farmer Maggot: "Where did you find them, Mr. Maggot? In your duck-pond?" (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "A Short Cut to Mushrooms").
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals and Related Writings — Part One" (edited by Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 47, February 2005, pp. 35-6
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenya Noun Structure", in Parma Eldalamberon XXI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Patrick H. Wynne and Arden R. Smith), p. 19
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenya Noun Structure", in Parma Eldalamberon XXI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Patrick H. Wynne and Arden R. Smith), p. 20
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part One" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 45, November 2003, p. 26
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Early Elvish Poetry and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets", in Parma Eldalamberon XVI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Patrick H. Wynne, Carl F. Hostetter and Bill Welden), p. 132
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenya Noun Structure", in Parma Eldalamberon XXI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Patrick H. Wynne and Arden R. Smith), p. 56
